Time Team Special: Swords, Skulls & Strongholds | Classic Special (Full Episode) 2008 

I would imagine it would be extremely difficult to tell whether "human sacrifice" was because of a serial killing priest that engrained killing as part of a religeous ritual, or the result of a demented serial killing tribal leader that demanded deaths to satisfy their evil cravings for killing. Both were able to get away with it because their murderous ways gained them power over the people that weren't willing to murder.

This is an incredible production and a model for future TimeTeam programs. The idea of sharing what has been learned from previous work done by archeologists over the centuries is wonderful way of making the public aware of our past. Tony would have to be the Presenter and other classic and current members of TimeTeam could be could be brought in to explain the significance of the finds!

BIT DISGUSTING HOW YOU PLASTER POOR TONY ALL OVER THE PLACE TO PROMOTE YOURSELF

Thanks for a great episode! I’m curious as to the construction, of the massive ditches, of the hill forts. How many people must’ve laboured or slaved, under great hardship and their working conditions. The organising of such huge work programs, all the trade and connections with other places that went along with it. What did they do with all the stone and material, they extracted from the hilltops? Was it all simply piled up as the “walls” in between ditches? Or did they make use of it in other ways also? Did they keep records for their building projects? And what did they use if so? I posit that with so much chalk readily available, it wouldn’t take much imagination, or be a leap of speculating far, to suppose they used slate, or pottery to write on? To conclude that they didn’t keep any records at all, bc we don’t find any evidence, is more outlandish than that no evidence survived. I would love to know what the top experts think about this and if there’s any evidence, of some kind of transactions, trade and lists. It seems quite absurd, to be able to construct and maintain, such large settlements and their Civilisations with none. For all we know, perhaps they ritually, or routinely, destroyed their records, or wrote them onto people’s skin? An obvious flaw with using chalk to write, is it’s not very permanent and would need to be either copied frequently, or written over ontop again. Pls address this topic in a future video if possible. Many thanks.

Brilliant work Tony love your history programs

great idea - also more reenactments inside computer visualisations of the historic sites

Agree

I would love to see Phil do such an episode!

I'd like to hear about what happened in the pubs after!

Agreed

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"as cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at the University of Oxford"

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Black Adder ….. nice

Same, every fukn time😂😂😂😂😂

You are right!!! Western Washington myself 😊

started with hot-air balloons, though. Used for both archaeology (a bit) and military reconnaissance.

Cool

Sweet heart the man has an acidic tongue.

Saying on the Gaul and there displays I think 😊

I watch them all the time on RU-vid. I cannot get Time Team out of my blood. ❤️🙏❤️

The first 11 series (minus series 9) are on the Channel 4 website so they won't be made available on RU-vid for UK audiences at least. If you are elsewhere in the world, the Time Team Classics channel has more episodes available than we can see in the UK - including some of the earlier episodes.

Are they really sure that it is a horse? Looks more like a greyhound lifting its leg to mark its territory! 😉😊

Bone detectives was pretty good 😊

What for us people who can only remember being able to move an bend like the team 😅

That's ahell of a lot of ears listening 👂 yah know 😮

It aired in 2008

Agreed if you don't get access to new ideas and techniques you see no need to change

When the Europeans arrived they judged by what they were used to. Advanced navigational skills, metallurgy, a written language etc. The nail in the coffin however was the aboriginal beliefs in polytheism and animist characters. The Christian belief therefore judged the indigenous people as savages. A completely different aside is that when the people crossed over the Bering ice bridge they were colonizing an unknown territory. I doubt if they had encountered a preexisting population (which I doubt there was) they would have said "sorry about trespassing, we will go back to were we came from". Colonialism has existed for all time whether relatively benign to outright barbarism.

@adamsjerome1839 You maybe taking it wrong in what I was saying the cut off America's did not have the advancing trade in tech. Not saying in their own way advanced compared to the rest of the world, we were just above Australia in technology 🙄

One big problem they had was the lack of tin. They had copper for thousands of year, plus gold and silver. But tin is very rare in the Western Hemisphere. No tin, no bronze. And without bronze, you don't develop the smelting technology for iron.

There was a story I can't rember the name of where they excavation was a hotel and they surmised bathrooms were religious rooms for worship. It was because every room had one 😊

Plenty of women and other beasts of burden! Usually only a mile or 2 to the nearest creek. 😱😈

@@theoztreecrasher2647 Ok, but hauling gallons of water per person per day up a hill like that must have been a major consideration against long term residence?

The whole premise of the show is to build a straw man ie silly old fashioned duffers from the past with their antiquated views versus us ever so sophisticated modern types who find conflict so distasteful. It's a nonsense when is a fortified town not a fort?

Want to link your peer reviewed PhD paper on that?

@@lenabreijer1311 Just commenting as the video did towards the end on the same correlation. I'm a biologist but love and support Time Team.

@@zworm2 there is definitely a difference between a Fort, which is basically occupied by soldiers and a walled town or village. Both York and London had walls, neither were forts.

I believe the were a continent people I believe 😊

The porn or the archeology?😅